Tom Truscott is an American
computer scientist best known for creating
Usenet
Usenet () is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it wa ...
with
Jim Ellis, when both were
graduate students
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The organization and str ...
at
Duke University.
He is also a member of
ACM,
IEEE
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, and
Sigma Xi
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. One of his first endeavors into computers was writing a computer chess program and then later working on a global optimizer for C at
Bell Labs
Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984),
then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007),
is an American industrial Research and development, research and scientific developm ...
. This computer chess program competed in multiple computer chess tournaments such as the Toronto chess tournament in 1977 (2nd place) and the Linz tournament in 1980 (3rd place). Today, Truscott works on tools that analyze software as a software developer for the
SAS Institute
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.
Truscott received the
USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for Usenet.
Further reading
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References
External links
The Evolution Of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANETContains excerpts of ''Invitation to a General Access UNIX* Network'', the original USENIX handout describing Usenet
Interview with Tom TruscottTom Truscott BiographyContains Full Biography of Tom Truscott
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Duke University alumni
American computer scientists
Usenet people
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